Refrigerator for beer-barrels



(No Model.)

A. B. KOKERNOT. REFRIGERATOR FOR BEER BARRELS.

No. 500,011. Patented June 20, 1893.

drawings.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER BENJAMIN KOKERNOT, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

REFRIGERATOR FOR BEER-BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,011, dated June 20, 1893.

Application filed August 4, 1892. Serial No. 442,149- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BENJAMIN KOKERNOT, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Boxes for Beer-Barrels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of thesaine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to refrigerator boxes for beer barrels, the object being to provide a suitable stand with a refrigerating chamber to receive a beer barrel and with convenient means for receiving the surplus water from a refrigerator tube in the barrel.

Theinvention consists in the construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the refrigerator box with the doors open, showing the barrel or vessel in position therein. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the doors closed. Fig: 3 is a central vertical sectional view of the barrel or vessel showing the refrigerator tube in place.

In order that the contents of the barrel-or vessel 1, may be more rapidly cooled, may remain cold a longer time, and to economize the refrigerating material, causing it to last longer and do greater service, I provide a cold air refrigerator box 2, the back, sides and bottom whereof are made stationary and tightly jointed or fastened together; the said refrigerator box 2,being supported upon suitable legs or standards 3.

Secured to the interior of the vertical sides of the cold-air refrigerator box 2, are cleats 4. A cover 5, is provided at the top of said box, which cover may be of any desired construction and secured to the box in any suitable manner, and is preferably made to fit into a rabbet in the top of the box as shown in the The bottom of the box at a point below the refrigerator tube is provided with an opening which may be closed by a tight fitting cover 6, opening inward. The front of the box 2 is closed by two or more doors as shown in the drawings, suitably secured to the body of the box, and having a suitable fastening device. A small semicircular portion may be removed from each door ,to provide an opening through which the faucet may extend. When three doors are used I prefer to so arrange them that one of said doors will cover the space from the cleats 4 to the bottom of the box, and the other doors cover the portion from said cleats to the top of the box, but it is obvious this arrangement-of doors may be changed at will. box together with the inner face of the doors may be lined with any suitable non-conducting material. I

To strengthen the head of the barrel, prevent it warping and to cause the packing to fit tight and sn ug around the refrigerator tube 7, I provide exteriorly threaded bushings. 8,

each provided at its outer end with a lateral flange countersunk into the barrel or vessel head. These bushings receive the ends of "the refrigerator tube 8. The inner end of these bushings 8 extend sufficiently inside the barrel head to receive each aring 9, which is screwed thereupon and rests tightly against the inner surface of the barrel head thereby securing the bushings 8 in position. I prefer to provide these rings with radial arms 10, which afford a means for screwing the same on the bushing and which extend almost entirely across the inner surface of the barrel head, thus increasing the security of the means for retaining the bushings 8, in place. If desired I may make the exterior of the bushings 8, smooth to a short distance of their inner ends and reduce and screw thread the ends thereof, in which case they may then be driven in the hole and the rings 9 screwed upon their ends. Packing material may be interposed around the bushings 8 between the rings 9 and the barrel or vessel heads. The ends of the refrigerator tube 7 extend outward beyond the bushings 8, and are screw threaded exteriorly to receive flanged nuts 11. The edge of the interior circumference of each bushing 8, is sunken or chamfered and the adjacent portions of the juts 11 are correspondingly sunken or chamfered whereby receptacles are formed for a packing material, thus forming perfectly tight joints when the parts are in position. The end of the refrigerator tube 7 may be provided with flanged caps ll The interior of the interiors.

For the purpose of providing a convenient means for receiving the surplus water discharged from the refrigerator tube, the legs which support the refrigerator box 2 are con-v nected by horizontal bars 12, which support at their crossing portions a piece or platform 13 to support a bucket or other receptacle 13 immediately under the door 6 in the bottom of the refrigerator box 2 and when said bucket is filled it can be emptied and replaced. In place of the door 6, orin addition thereto the opening in the bottom may be closed bye supplemental receptacle, 13 provided with a flange to be engaged by turn buttons 14: se-

cured to the bottom of thebox 2 or said receptacle may be, and preferablyis, integrally attached to the bottom of the box. The lower 'end of this receptacle 13" is provided with a faucet 14. The lower end of the tube 7 is screw-threaded interiorlyto receive a partition 8 screw-threaded onits exterior and provided with afaucet which is opened when it is desired to discharge the accumulatedwater. To increase the ice-holding capacity of the refrigerator-tube 7, and in order to obtain the best results, a flanged, cylindrical, supplemental joint 15 is closely fitted in thetop hole of the refrigerator box, its flange fitting a recess in the top of said box and its lower end fitting snugly in the top end of the refrigzg'erator tube.

To put the refrigerator box in operation,

its top front doors are opened and the barrel or vessel with the faucet and the refrigerator tube attached and packed with ice, is placed in the refrigerator box, the bottom of the barrel or vessel resting on the cleats 4, and the doors-of the refrigerator box are then closed. No cover is required for the refrigeratortube in the vessel in the refrigerator box. The refrigerator tube is supplied with ice through the cover 5 at the top of the box, as required, and whenever it is required to discharge the surplus water in the refrigerator tube the faucet in the lower bushing 8, is opened as is also the door 6 in the'bottom of the refrigerator box, so that the water will flow into the When, however, the supplemental receptacle 13" is employed, the

bucket or vessel 13.

faucet in the partition 8 may be allowed to remain open when the surplus from the refrigerator tube will drip into the receptacle 13 and may be discharged therefrom through the faucet 14.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. The combination with a refrigerator'box having legs andp'rovided with cleats for sup porting a beer barrel within .said box, said box provided with an opening in itslower end, of a receptacle detachably connected with said openingand provided witha faucet to receive and'draw oif thedripfrom the refrigerator tube in the barrel, substantially as described.

= 2. The combination with a refrigerator box' having an opening in its top, and a barrel or vessel supported in said box and provided with a vertically arranged refrigerator tube,

of a detachable supplemental joint for connecting the upper end of said tube with the opening in the top of the box, substantially as described. t t

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in thepresence of two wit- ALEXANDER. BENJAMIN KOKERNOT.

Witnesses:

G. REBENTISCH, ALPHONSE J. GUNEo. 

